Chiefs Lose Battle for the Barrel

Bowling Green, KY - The Peoria Chiefs fell 8-1 in the Battle for the Barrel to the Bowling Green Hot Rods on Tuesday night. After scoring in the first inning, the Chiefs gave up eight unanswered runs to drop their fourth in a row and fall to 13-16 on the season.

    For the second day in a row the Chiefs scored in the top of the first, this time against Hot Rods starter Tobias Myers. Scott Hurst led off with a walk and moved to third on consecutive groundouts. Elehuris Montero gave the Chiefs a 1-0 lead with a single to right before Myers got out of the inning.
    The Chiefs lost a runner at the plate on a double in the top of the third and Bowling Green took the lead against Evan Guillory in the bottom of the inning. With two in scoring position and no outs, Zach Rutherford singled home Emilio Gustave. The Rays 2017 first round pick, Brendan McKay, singled and a sacrifice fly from Zac Law made it a 2-1 game before an error by Taylor Bryant brought home a run. Moises Gomez singled home a run and Carl Chester capped the five-run inning with a sacrifice fly to left field before Guillory got out of the frame.
    Bowling Green added on in the sixth. Chester reached on an infield single to shortstop and moved to second on a comebacker that hit Guillory in the left leg. The Chiefs hurler recovered to get the out at first but left the game after a conference on the mound. Noel Gonzalez took over and balked Chester to third before a sacrifice fly from Gustave gave Bowling Green a 6-1 lead.
    The Hot Rods finished the scoring in the seventh against Gonzalez. Rutherford drew a leadoff walk and move to second on a single by Law. After a fielders' choice put runners on the corners with two down, the Hot Rods scored on consecutive singles by Gomez and Chester for an 8-1 lead.
     Guillory (3-2) took the loss as he allowed six runs, five earned, on 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings. He walked one and struck out two. Gonzalez allowed two runs on three hits and a walk over 1 2/3 innings. Thomas St. Clair retired all three batters he faced in the eighth inning with two strikeouts.
Notes… Hurst went 0-for-3 with a walk to end a 10-game hit streak but extend his on-base streak to 11 games...Denton, playing an hour from his Nashville, TN area home has consecutive multi-hit games in Bowling Green with family and friends on hand to watch…Guillory's streak of three straight starts of at least six innings ended…He allowed a career-high 10 hits…Bowling Green has six sacrifice flies so far in the series, three in each game…Chiefs wore their Peoria Distillers jerseys in the Battle For the Barrel promotion…The Chiefs will wear those jerseys at home for Peoria Distillers week July 25-27 against Wisconsin and the jerseys will be auctioned on Chiefs.Gesture.com...The series concludes at 10:35 a.m. Wednesday as the Chiefs send RH Alvaro Seijas (1-2, 5.01) to the mound against Bowling Green RH Austin Franklin (2-2, 4.32)... The broadcast can be heard, starting with the Pre-Game Show at 10:20 a.m. on www.peoriachiefs.com/listenliveand is also available on the Peoria Chiefs Network in the Tune-In Radio App.